What was Marx hoping to accomplish with Das Capital?
What Marx was hoping to accomplish with Capital was to lay bare the workings of political economy, to finally show to workers how they were exploited, why they were exploited and what would be an ends to exploitation. To prove this scientifically and to show where exploitation actually occurred was the main goal of Capital, Volume One. Would it be accurate to say that hes sort of trying to prove what he had already said in the Communist Manifesto, but in a scientific way? I think its true that Karl Marx tried in Capital to prove what he already had said in the Communist Manifesto, but in addition to that, he wanted to speak to a different audience. He wanted to speak to not just ordinary workers, but he wanted to speak to political economists, to academics, to people in all walks of life, and especially to people who were very, very skeptical about the ability of workers to actually come to power and in that sense to offer scientific proof that what they had laid out in programmatic la
